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Utopia In The Midst Of Oppression? A Reconsideration Of Guaraní/Jesuit Communities In Seventeenth And Eighteenth Century Paraguay, Thomas W. O'Brien
Utopia In The Midst Of Oppression? A Reconsideration Of Guaraní/Jesuit Communities In Seventeenth And Eighteenth Century Paraguay, Thomas W. O'Brien
Thomas W O'Brien
This essay is an examination of the 17th–18th century Guaraní/Jesuit communities in Paraguay, which were exalted as utopias by countless witnesses. These authors have stressed the long periods of peaceful coexistence, the rich and fruitful syncretistic melding cultures, the successful and bountiful economic life, and the relative justice. Nevertheless, controversy has always marked these communities because many believe that the Jesuit/Guaraní missions are best understood as integral to the larger oppressive imposition of European polity and culture. These authors stress evidence of condescending paternalism, structural inequality, restricted freedom of choice, and the erosion of a pristine Guaraní culture. This essay …
Interview: "Torture Report Leaves Unfinished Business", William T. Cavanaugh
Interview: "Torture Report Leaves Unfinished Business", William T. Cavanaugh
William T. Cavanaugh
No abstract provided.
Interview: "Can Theology Make A Difference In Achieving Racial Reconciliation?", William T. Cavanaugh
Interview: "Can Theology Make A Difference In Achieving Racial Reconciliation?", William T. Cavanaugh
William T. Cavanaugh
No abstract provided.
"The Violence Of 'Religion': Examining A Prevalent Myth", William T. Cavanaugh
"The Violence Of 'Religion': Examining A Prevalent Myth", William T. Cavanaugh
William T. Cavanaugh
This essay examines arguments that religion is prone to violence and finds them incoherent. They are incoherent because they can find no way consistently to differentiate the religious from the secular. After exposing the arbitrariness of the arguments, the essay goes on to examine why such arguments are so common. The hypothesis put forward is that such arguments are so prevalent because, while they delegitimate certain kinds of violence, they legitimate other kinds of violence, namely, violence done in the name of secular, Western states and ideals. Such arguments sanction a putative dichotomy between non-Western, especially Muslim, forms of culture …
Complicity And Moral Memory, M. Cathleen Kaveny
Complicity And Moral Memory, M. Cathleen Kaveny
M. Cathleen Kaveny
No abstract provided.
The Death Of Jesus And The Death Of The Temple, Lawrence E. Frizzell D.Phil.
The Death Of Jesus And The Death Of The Temple, Lawrence E. Frizzell D.Phil.
Reverend Lawrence E. Frizzell, S.T.L., S.S.L., D.Phil.
Whether he knew it or not, Mel Gibson touched on theological traditions formed long after the lifetime of Jesus in his movie, The Passion of Christ. To have them shape a movie that purports to tell a story set during the lifetime of Jesus – even if only in his last twelve hours – adds a confusing kind of anachronism to Gibson’s effort to “tell it like it was.” It (the movie) is as it (the history) wasn’t.
To understand the place of the Temple in the lifetime and the piety of Jesus of Nazareth, we have to look …
Options For The Poor In Twelfth And Thirteenth-Century Europe, Thomas W. O'Brien
Options For The Poor In Twelfth And Thirteenth-Century Europe, Thomas W. O'Brien
Thomas W O'Brien
This essay uses the lens of the "preferential option for the poor" to examine the unprecedented turn to poverty by religious movements in late twelfth and early thirteenth-century Western Europe. Three movements are selected from the many and various movements espousing poverty: the Humiliati, the Waldensians, and the Franciscans. The Humiliati developed a communal lifestyle that, in key ways, reflected the emerging urban working class. The Waldensians embraced a radical poverty that rejected all forms of property, but they were progressively marginalized from Catholicism and eventually became targets of the Inquisition. The Franciscans adopted a very similar sort of radical …
Sacred Fury: Understanding Religious Violence By Charles Selengut, Thomas W. O'Brien
Sacred Fury: Understanding Religious Violence By Charles Selengut, Thomas W. O'Brien
Thomas W O'Brien
No abstract provided.
Healing A Broken World: Globalization And God By Cynthia D. Moe-Lobeda, William T. Cavanaugh
Healing A Broken World: Globalization And God By Cynthia D. Moe-Lobeda, William T. Cavanaugh
William T. Cavanaugh
No abstract provided.
"Sins Of Omission: What 'Religion And Violence' Arguments Ignore", William T. Cavanaugh
"Sins Of Omission: What 'Religion And Violence' Arguments Ignore", William T. Cavanaugh
William T. Cavanaugh
No abstract provided.